Aspect Quote by Max Black

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

— James Geary

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

— Neil Postman

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

— Edward Gorey

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe…

— Nick Laird

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff